with a whole skin

[with a whole skin] also [in a whole skin] {adv. phr.}

With no injury; unhurt; safely.

* /The boy was lucky to escape with a whole skin when the car went off the road./

* /Jack came through the game with a whole skin./

* /The horse threw him off, but he got away in a whole skin./

Syn.: SAFE AND SOUND.

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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